The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-21
SHORT GRABS TO THE FRONT
LICK LOG STATION, july le ~

yoo css0i saw ouC Ine corn is begin.
ming to twist and the geese and cb?;cL
ems sit around in the shade with tbo;n
mouths open and their wings droonod
and the little chaps have GOT ont pea
their pants and their long loose motbor
hubbards look mighty tempting to wa
grown up suffering people. / am i,7ot
back from the station, and as + ~
Saturday evening, [ thought 7 voniJ
spend it in washing and shayino anJ
reading my papers. We are prettT
thickly settled around in this ]sectioS
and generally on Saturday evenings
we meet out at the station and ta7l'
over the crops, and politics, and tho
farmers clubs and such news as wo
get from our papers; Henry jenkins
one of my neighbors, lisa good farmer
and has a good crop, and he takes
several of he~-leading papers. and
keeps well posted. He is a keen
earnest fellow, and we ALWAYS eniov
seeing him, but he sticks mighty close
to his business. But his hogs broke
through a water-gate last Wednesday
and got into his corn, and in trying to
catch the old SOW, he fell and crippled
his arm, so he was out at the station
today. [ asked him what he wanted
to catch the old sow for, and he said
she was the leader Of the gang and he
wanted to break her-that one good
whipping would do more to break her
than if you was to put a whole pack
of hounds on her and eat off her ears.
There is ALI. Edwards, who is
a mighty smart fellow. He was raised
in our neighborhood and went to Bal.
timore some years ago and got in as a
drummer. He travels all over the
the State and keeps both ears and
eyes wide open, and when he comes
home occasionally to take a rest spell,
we gather a lot of news from him.
Well, he and Henry were both out at
the station, and we all got out on a
bench in the shade and talked. Henry
and ALI. got on the Atlanta Conven-
ton, and while we are all leaning
heavy on that convention, yet we are
a little uneasy for fear the politicians
may capture it, but it seems that Gov.
ernor Scales done pretty we'll in pick.
ing out farmers, but ALI. says that
there are some names on the list that
would sound mighty green in a farm.
ers' meeting in their own neighbor.
hoods, but we hope you will all come
out right. Then they went all over
the Polk and Scales conventions Of
last winter and wound up on farmers
clubs and the Concord Institute and
the Mount Holly Grange Encamp,
ment and Farmers Annual Institute.
Henry said he was puzzled to know
how MI. Patrick got to acting Com
missioner of Agriculture and boss
granger and general engineer of the
whole thing. He said he knowed that
Mr.. Commissioner Robinson was re-
quired by the law to run farmers in
stitutes, but that he had not seen his
name connected with it-that Mr..
Patrick seemed to boss the thing.
81 ALI said he had just come from up
in that country and that he talked
with some of the farmers about it. lie
said one farmer told him that most
people thought it was queer that Mount
Holly should be selected to make a
permanent encampment, and to have
big shows and to build a camp ground
for the oranges of the State, wnen
there wasn't but n grange IN oVV
miles of the place, in the State, anu
that he would bet his knife against a
nickle that there wouldn't be ten
grangers there. Then another thing
the old farmer said, that this place
should be picked out, away off on one
line of railroad, on one side Oh Tue
State, and on the furthest side OF .Ie
State from all the oranges when har
eigh or Goldsboro would be glao "
have it and they are big places anu
got plenty of railroads so people coliu
get to it. About that time All: Sau'
another farmer come out OF the Dla'A,
smith shop with a buzzard sweep
one hand and a swingle-tree In snd
other, and come up to where ne 1ouh %
out what we we're talking aoout, ~
said why the railroad is at the oo'o 10
of the whole thing, and it is got up ,b e
advertise the little place and sell Sat
land, leastways, says he, that's W ahan
the folks say about here. JusS ST.
Susan Jane come out of the milllne[e
shop and said she had to DO all me-
cooking for tomorrow, and we o